Sunday, March 06, 2011

Hong Kong Company Moves Swiftly on Ultrafast Broadband - NYTimes.com

Available to some in the US today for a mere $349.99/month

HONG KONG residents can enjoy astoundingly fast broadband at an astoundingly low price. It became available last year, when a scrappy company called Hong Kong Broadband Network introduced a new option for its fiber-to-the-home service: a speed of 1,000 megabits a second — known as a “gig” — for less than $26 a month.

In the United States, we don’t have anything close to that. But we could. And we should.